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Beth LindopJul 11, 2025, 03:42 PM ETCloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.Liverpool have confirmed they will retire the No. 20 shirt in honour of forward Diogo Jota, who died in a car crash alongside his brother, André Silva, last week.Jota wore the No. 20 for the duration of his time at Anfield after signing from Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2020.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedNow, following consultation with his widow, Rute, and family, the club have announced that Jota’s squad number will be retired across all levels, including LFC Women and Academy.The move is…

After consultation with his wife, Rute, and family, the club can announce the squad number will be retired in honour and memory of Diogo across all levels, including LFC Women and Academy.The move is recognition of not only the immeasurable contribution our lad from Portugal made to the Reds’ on-pitch successes over the last five years, but also the profound personal impact he had on his teammates, colleagues and supporters and the everlasting connections he built with them.“As a club, we were all acutely aware of the sentiment of our supporters – and we felt exactly the same way,” said…

Spain cruised to a 3-1 win over Italy on Friday that sees both sides through to the knockout stages at the Women’s Euros, with the Spaniards topping Group B to set up a showdown with hosts Switzerland, while the second-placed Italians will meet Group A winners Norway.Spain finished top of the group with a perfect nine points from their three games, with the Italians second on four points, one head of already-eliminated Belgium, who beat Portugal 2-1 to snuff out their chances of advancing.The swashbuckling football of the Spaniards has singled them out as the team to beat in Switzerland…

Italy will join Spain in the Women’s Euro 2025 quarter-finals despite losing 3-1 to the world champions in the final round of Group B matches.The Italians needed a point to secure their last eight spot but put in an impressive first half display – and threatened to win the group altogether as they dominated the early chances and struck the bar through captain Elena Linari. Eventually, Italy took a deserved lead as Elisabetta Oliviero struck from close range after Spain failed to clear their lines – and despite Athenea del Castillo equalising for the world champions in style, Italy continued…

CNN  —  India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation bureau has released a preliminary report on the Air India flight that crashed in June, showing the fuel to the engines was cut off. The London-bound plane had barely left the runway at Ahmedabad airport before it careened back to earth. Everyone on board was killed, except for one passenger. According to the report obtained by CNN, the fuel control switches in the cockpit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner had been flipped, starving the engines of fuel. Investigators were able to get data out of the black boxes, including 49 hours of flight data…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, economies and the environment, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization says.“About 2 billion tons of dust are emitted yearly, equivalent to 300 Great Pyramids of Giza” in Egypt, the organization’s U.N. representative, Laura Paterson, told the General Assembly.More than 80% of the world’s dust comes from the deserts in North Africa and the Middle East, she said, but it has a global impact because the particles can travel hundreds and even thousands of kilometers (miles) across…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and FBI are struggling to contain the fallout and appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base after the administration’s decision this week to withhold records from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.The move, which included the acknowledgment that one particular sought-after document never existed in the first place, sparked a contentious conversation between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino at the White House earlier this week that threatened to permanently shatter relations between the two officials, and centered — in part —…

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country announced today they have received over $30 million in donations that will start being distributed as grants immediately. The first $5 million in grants will be allocated to local organizations doing work on the ground, Austin Dixon, Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country CEO, said at a news conference. Additional grants will be available to directly support individuals and families with cash assistance, food, gift cards, rent assistance, utility assistance and other emergency needs. The foundation is also providing grants to local businesses and to first responder agencies for the tools…

CNN  —  Ecuador’s most notorious drug kingpin is headed to the United States. Jose Adolfo Macías, better known as “Fito,” agreed Friday to be extradited from Ecuador to the US, where he is wanted by the US Justice Department on charges of drug and weapons trafficking. The head of the criminal organization Los Choneros accepted his extradition during a hearing at the National Court of Justice. In a statement to CNN, Alexei Schacht, Macías’s attorney in the US, said that his client agreed to be extradited on the advice of his Ecuadorean lawyer. “We are working hard to defend his…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a mortgage fraud conviction of former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who gained a national profile for charging police officers in a Black man’s death. But the court upheld two perjury convictions relating to real estate she purchased.The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that jury instruction in the mortgage fraud case was “erroneously overbroad” concerning the proper court venue. The case was tried in Maryland relating to property she bought in Florida.“As a result of our decision to vacate the mortgage fraud conviction,…